SPM™ EdgeX Is Your Solution
Performance and uptime are crucial to your bottom line, so quality matters. SPM™ EdgeX delivers high-quality pump consumables to keep your operation at peak performance. While, on average, valves and seats are replaced every 60—80 hours, SPM EdgeX gives you an average of 540+ hours. If you’re looking for innovative, new ways to improve surface efficiency and reliability while lowering HSE risk, maintenance, unplanned downtime and lost revenue, look no further than SPM EdgeX.
Built To Perform—And To Last.
EdgeX delivers the performance, efficiency and durability you need for your operation. Benefits include:
Take a look at the products that make EdgeX your answer.
EdgeX Valves And Carbide Seats
- Carbide Seats performed 1,000+ hours of finite element analysis (FEA) modeling to evaluate insert and steel stresses, design and thermal impacts, with 10 tested design iterations in the field
- Valves offer optimized fluid dynamics and performance with lab- and field-validated CFD analysis
- Ensured durability of the valve body and determined optimal urethane design through extensive FEA modeling
- Conducted extensive testing for seats in SPM’s custom cyclical sand tester (CST) using a vast range of known frac media to better understand abrasion resistance, durability and toughness of designs and tungsten carbide grades
- Vetted and tested each seat design iteration in SPM’s high-pressure loop at 15,000 psi and performed –170 to 200 °F (–112 to 93 °C) thermal shock testing to eradicate known temperature-dependent failure modes
EdgeX Plungers
- Sizes available to support wide range of industry pump types and designs
- 0.2% porosity improves reliability and decreases wear
- Optimized surface finish to extend life of the plunger and packing, with automated coating and fusion process of proprietary Ni and TC blends for increased production quality and performance
Field Trials
Operators put EdgeX products to the test in some of the world’s harshest conditions. Take a look at how EdgeX stood up to the challenge.
540% Longer Seat Life
in Canada
The Montney and Duvernay plays in Canada present unique challenges to valves and seats due to their frigid temperatures and total sand volume. With temperatures as low as –40 °C (–40 °F) and up to 5,000 tons of sand pumped per well, the seats are subjected to much harsher conditions than a typical job. An operator recently piloted the new SPM™ EdgeX Carbide Seat with unprecedented success. The new seats ran for a record 515 hours—approximately 540% longer than previous seats—with 8x fewer changeouts.
760 Hours of Seat Life
in the Permian
A Permian operator wanted to optimize the maintenance—and associated costs—of its frac equipment and consumables. SPM™ Oil and Gas proposed a field trial with SPM™ EdgeX Carbide Seats across three sites. The operator ran the engineered carbide seats an average of 655 hours—more than 8x longer than previous seats. One seat lasted 760 hours, setting a record for the longest life of an EdgeX Carbide Seat in North America.
Haynesville Operator Increases Seat Life 8.9x
With pressures as high as 12,500 psi, the Haynesville Shale subjects frac equipment to some of the most extreme conditions of any play in North America. To complete its multi-well pads, a Haynesville operator pumped an average of 650,000 pounds of abrasive 40/140-mesh proppant per stage. Despite the challenging conditions, the SPM™ EdgeX Carbide Seat lasted an average of 538 hours—an increase of 797% when compared with conventional steel seats.
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